OAU student that came in contact with PH doctor show Ebola symptoms

A female aide of Dr. Iyke Enemuo, the Port Harcourt doctor, who died of the Ebola virus in the Rivers State capital created apprehension at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State on Tuesday when she took ill at the university.

Our correspondent gathered that the female student had contact with the late doctor and was put under surveillance in Port Harcourt for 21 days before she was certified okay, having tested negative to the virus.

On her return to OAU to resume her studies, however, she took ill and was walked to the university’s health centre where she was admitted.

Some students told our correspondent that the lady was bleeding and showing other signs of the Ebola virus.

This was said to have caused a serious panic among the students of the university.

The  Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju, told our correspondent that the university would make its findings known to the public on Tuesday night.

He said, “It is a suspicion we don’t know yet. We will make our position on it known tonight. We are still working, we are in the office now.”

The  Public Relations Officer of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife, Mr. Olu Bello, denied the rumour that a victim of Ebola virus was admitted to the hospital on Monday.

Bello debunked the rumour in a telephone interview with our correspondent in Osogbo on Tuesday.

He said, “There is no case of Ebola at the OAUTHC; nothing like that. I also heard something like that. Such rumour has been causing unnecessary tension among the people but it is not true.”

The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr. Temitope Ilori, said a student of OAU, who was said to have had contact with the late Enemuo, had been isolated at the Obafemi Awolowo University Health Centre.